Early Gunnison, Colorado residents read newspapers inside their short walled canvas tent. A large pair of antlers hang on the front support pole. A washboard, antlers, liquor bottles, and wood for the stove are outside the tent. A wood cabin is in...

Rocky crags and cliffs are above the Colorado River at Mille Crag Bend in Cataract Canyon, Garfield County, Utah (later Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Lake Powell). Shows a narrow river bed and large rocks beside the water.

Two Native American men (Capote Ute) pose for a portrait. The men have wrapped braids and wear leather moccasins and leggings with fringe and bead or quillwork. The man seated on a buffalo robe has a blanket around his waist, he wears a choker...

A man stands on a rock precipice at the edge of the Grand Canyon in Coconino County, Arizona (later Grand Canyon National Park). Shows weathered rock surfaces and steep, layered canyon walls in the distance. The man wears a hat and holds a canvas...

Captured North American Indian (Northern Cheyenne) warriors , members of Dull Knife's band sit on the steps of the Ford County courthouse in Dodge City (Ford County), Kansas. Two white men sit with them. The men are identified as: 1) Frizzly Head...

Two American Indian (Pueblo) girls sit on an adobe wall in front of the Albuquerque Indian School, a boarding school in Albuquerque (Bernalillo County), New Mexico. Men and women sit and stand in front of the Territorial style adobe building. A...

Studio portrait of two North American Indian (Pawnee) men. They are identified as: La-Roo-Rutk-A-Haw-La-Shar, Night Chief, and La-Roo-Ra-Shar-Roo-Cosh, A Man That Left His Enemy lying In the Water, both of the Kit Ka-Hoct (Kitkehahke) Band. Night...

Clothing & dress.; Rifles.; Tribal chiefs.; Warriors.; Man That Left His Enemy lying In the Water.; Night Chief.; Indians of North America--1860-1870.; Pawnee Indian Tribe of Oklahoma--1860-1870.

Members of the survey crew stand on rocks above the Colorado River and one man sits in a row boat in the river in the Grand Canyon (later Grand Canyon National Park), probably near the mouth of Diamond Creek in Mohave County, Arizona.

Union Pacific Railroad engine "Idaho" and passenger railroad cars sit beside a painted arch with lettering that reads: "100th Meridian, 247 Miles from Omaha" in Dawson County, Nebraska. Shows a United States flag and a rack of antlers mounted on...

View of the brick buildings of the Union Pacific Railroad works at Omaha (Douglas County), Nebraska. Shows arched windows, gabled roofs, a brick smokestack, warehouse and engine house buildings. Stacks of lumber are nearby.

Men, identified as the commissioners and directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, stand in a row near railroad tracks and pose with a long piece of paper in probably Lincoln County, Nebraska. The Union Pacific Railroad officials wear suits with...

A view of three men near an encampment in West Gallatin Canyon area near the Gallatin River in Yellowstone National Park in Montana. One man holds a coffee grinder as another man prepares settings for a meal. A third man sits near a pile of...

A view of Cunningham Gulch from the Highland Mary Mine in San Juan County, Colorado shows Cunningham Creek and an encampment with tents. A miner stands near a tent and holds a tool or implement on his shoulder.

A man with a hat and tall boots, a member of the Corps of Engineers, sits and poses on a rock at probably Toroweap Point on the edge of a chasm at the Grand Canyon (later Grand Canyon National Park), in Arizona. Shows rounded sandstone rocks and...

A man, probably a member of the geological survey, wears a hat and stands on a rocky ridge at the edge of the Grand Canyon (later Grand Canyon National Park), Arizona, at Shivwits Plateau. Shows layered canyon walls in the distance.

A view of Native American ((Ancestral Puebloan) ruins in McElmo Canyon in Hovenweep National Monument in Colorado. Shows a desert landscape with shrubbery near an ancient ruin integrated into a natural rock formation. People are seen at the summit...

Portrait of four Native American Ute chiefs, an agent, and an interpreter at the Ute Indian Agency, twenty five miles below Ouray on the Uncompahgre River, probably San Juan County, Colorado. The people are identified as Tabuchakat, Pahant, J. B....